Retainer and stop for umbrellas or parasols



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W.'MORRISON. RETAINER AND STOP FOR UMBRELLAS 0R PARASOLS.

i Patented Dec. 8', 1,896.

INVEN'T UNITED STATES lVILLIAM MORRISON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PATENT OFFICE.

RETAINER AND STOP FOR UMBRELLAS OR PARASOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,765,.datedDecember 8, 1896.

Application filed April 9, 1896. Serial No. 586,771. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM MORRISON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Retainers and Stops for Umbrellas or Parasols, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a retainer and stop for the runner of an umbrella or parasol, the same being constructed of a shank having diverging limbs, a stationary bearing-face, a stop-pin, and a head, said pin and head being adapted to protrude through the stick within which the shank is located and with which it is locked by said pin and head, the runner being adapted to be held simultaneously by said pin and head.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a runner and stop embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a section thereon of a portion on line a: m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a stick of an umbrella, the same being preferably formed of a metallic tube.

B designates the shoulder or head for retaining the runner when the umbrella is in open position, said head having connected with it the shank O, which is deflected so as to form the limbs D and E, which converge from the place of junction F, the back of said place having a bearing against the wall of the tube, which said shank occupies, or said shank may be curved, as shown dotted in Fig. 2.

At the upper end of the limb D is a pin G, which partly protrudes through the opening H in the wall of the stick, so as to be in the path of the runner when raised above the head B, thus forming a stop which limits the ing J, which is partly occupied by the head B, and said pin directed into the opening H, when, owing to the elastic nature of said shank, said pin is forced outwardly through said opening H and so retains its position. This also retains the head and shank in position and prevents the same from dropping out through the opening J.

It will be seen that owing to the deflected limbs D and E the bearing or bearing-face F remains in contact with the inner wall of the stick as a fulcrum, and the resiliency of the limb E is such that when the head Bis pressed inwardly said limb bends on said bearing F without affecting the limb D, whereby the pin G remains protruded through the opening H beyond the exterior wall of the stick, so as to be always in the path of the runner and stop the movement of the same, it being noticed that the runner is held between the nose of the headB and pin G, owing to the protrusion of portions of said head and pin outside of the stick A in the same direction from the shank G, the locking of the retainer in the stick being effected by said'pin.

I am aware that it is not new to provide an umbrella with means for imparting motion to the runner thereof in order to close the same, the same consisting of a sliding piece of wire, one end of which is connected with a sliding thimble near the handle of the umbrella, and the other end has a projecting end near the top catch of the stick, said projecting end being adapted to be forced downwardly against the runner by the movement of said thimble, so as to start the runnerin order to close the umbrella.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A retainer for the runner of an umbrella or parasol consisting of a shank having diverging limbs, a stationary bearing-face, a stop-pin, and a head, said pin and head extending laterally from the outer ends of the opposite limbs of the shank and both being adapted to project outside of the stick within which said shank is located and with which it is locked by said stop-pin and head the runner being adapted to be held simultaneously by said pin and head.

2. A hollow umbrella or parasol stick provided with two openings in the Wall thereof, head passing through said openings and proin combination With a retainer for the runner jeoting in part outside of the same for simuleonsisting of a shank provided with a beartaneously holding the runner.

ing-face, limbs diverging from said face and WVILLIAM MORRISON. a locking and stop pin and a shouldered head WVitnesses: on the opposite ends of said limbs extending JOHN A. VVIEDERSHEIM,

' in the same direction therefrom, said pin and M. G. LUKENS. 

